How To Hack Your Anxiety. Stop Doing These 3 Things, They Are Making It Worse! | Owen O'Kane

ADHD Chatter

Alex Partridge

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Owen O'Kane is a leading psychotherapist and Sunday Times best selling author. Formerly the NHS lead in mental health, he continues to use his advanced knowledge to help YOU tackle your anxiety. In this conversation, Owen and Alex discuss topics such as, what shifts us from an anxious state into an anxiety attack, how to stabilise our stress and anxiety, what 3 things in our everyday life can make our anxiety worse, how to truly understand what happiness means to you... ...and SO much more. Chapters: 00:00 Trailer 01:07 Dedication 01:14 What is the worst side of anxiety that people experience? 02:40 ADHD anxiety VS neurotypical anxiety 05:41 The symptoms of anxiety from mild to severe 12:15 Is anxiety an evolutionary hangover 14:03 What shifts us from an anxious state into an anxiety attack? 22:36 Tiimo advert 24:42 The difference between rationale anxiety and irrational anxiety 28:17 Common ways to manage anxiety that are actually unhelpful 36:02 How to stabilise our stress and anxiety 37:49 Surefire techniques to calm anxiety 45:39 What does the term "catastrophizing" mean 53:45 Can we get addicted to anxiety and why would that be 01:03:09 How does anxiety link to depression 01:05:41 What 3 things in our everyday life can make our anxiety worse? 01:07:09 Things we do on a day-to-day basis that might be making us anxious and we don't even realise 01:09:09 How to create internal peace 01:13:05 How to truly understand what happiness means to you 01:18:14 Washing machine of woes 01:22:16 Owen’s ADHD Item Buy Owen’s new book 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Addicted-Anxiety-hooked-anxiety-happier/dp/0241728320/ Find Owen on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/owenokaneten/?hl=en Get 30% off an annual Tiimo subscription 👉 https://www.tiimoapp.com/adhdchatter Producer: Timon Woodward DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode, you're going to have anxiety until the day you die because you should have, but it should not be in the driving seat of your life, and that's a difference.
0:08.4	Owen or Kane, the world leading psychotherapist, whose books have enabled millions of people to master their anxiety and stress.
0:14.7	What are some examples of unhealthy ways to manage anxiety? If the focus is about getting a short-term relief, then very often that
0:21.8	has longer-term consequences. So, you know, you hear play it in different ways. It could be booze. It
0:26.2	could be cannabis. It could be drugs. It could be people eating a lot more food than they perhaps
0:30.8	need. The more you try to get rid of this, the more you're actually strengthening the dynamic
0:35.5	longer term. Do you have any tips, like any surefire ways that can calm anxiety? To quickly settle, you know, sometimes just ease kind of slow bilateral taps. That can be just instantaneously soothing. Even if you kind of go more fundamental in that, I think that when you're having a moment, just going to say, okay, what is it you need? You immediately get a sense of ease.
0:57.0	Because the anxiety then doesn't need to keep screaming and shouting.
0:58.0	You've acknowledged it.
1:03.0	And if someone does want to take responsibility for managing their anxiety, where do they start?
1:06.4	It's a big question, but I think probably the best way to answer would be that.
1:12.9	This episode is dedicated to anyone who's ever been called too sensitive or too much.
1:20.3	What's the worst side of anxiety that people in general experience?
1:26.7	I think for most people, it's the feelings that come with anxiety.
1:28.3	It never comes as a singular thing. People think anxiety is like a feeling in itself,
1:31.3	but it comes with a whole load of other feelings.
1:33.3	It comes with fear.
1:34.3	It comes with dread.
1:35.3	It comes with overwhelm.
1:36.3	So most people, when you talk to them about their anxiety,
1:39.3	will never speak positively about the feeling that anxiety brings. People often see it as a very,
1:46.8	very dark, negative thing that they have in their life. Something that they wish they didn't have,
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